Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside, patches of tin show where he has removed boards for use in his tunnel. In the summers he worked on a ranch to get money for more tunneling. For clothing he used garments discarded by other prospectors, patched them with flour sacking. He does not smoke or chew, but takes a nip of wine occasionally. He has never, he says, been lonely. Once he came stumbling into the shack of a neighbor, shaking and bloody. "Bad cave in," he said. "Nearly got me that time...
Blue-eyed, ruddy and broad of gait, Publisher Lane likes to loll around his new ranch (Quail Hollow) near Santa Cruz in a silk shirt and sombrero. His wife is president of the Palo Alto Garden Club. He has one rule for successful publishing: "Never miss an issue...
...drains the Powder River grass country where Western history was made. It watered the great ranch of the English-owned Powder River Cattle Co., which once ran 60,000 head of cattle. Along its valley rode 55 raiders from the big ranches of the South who came to fight the Johnson County...
...apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner of a dude ranch in the Jackson's Hole country of western Wyoming, has contributed an exclamatory style that can be described only as Wild West prose...
...befits the No. 1 idol of U. S. youth, Autry does not drink or smoke. He lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...